Mike Poteet

Mike Poteet

Joined: Jan 29, 2021

Mike's a professional writer who’s been a sucker for sci-fi and fantasy since age five when his parents took him to see "Star Wars." His sale of a short story to "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds II" (Pocket Books, 1999) remains his Trekkie dream come true. Mike's also an ordained Presbyterian minister serving the larger church as a curriculum writer.

Orson Welles and other members of the Mercury Theater rehearse for the broadcast of A Tale of Two Cities for the 1938 radio program First Person Singular. (Photo by �� John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why Star Trek fans should watch “The Night That Panicked America”

Bishop Museum gift shop is always fun to visit, you may see a cardboard cutout of Spock. Some 70 people enjoyed NASA's live broadcast of the James Webb Space Telescope (some 20-years in the making) revealing five spectacular images of the unseen universe at Bradenton's Bishop Museum of Science and Nature's Planetarium, Tuesday morning, July 12, 2022. It's shedding new light on galactic evolution and star formation that was always difficult to capture. Now with the Webb's extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution, and imaging capability it can chronicle these elusive events for over the next 20-years. For more information about Bradenton's Bishop Museum of Science and Nature, visit bishopscience.org and about the James Webb Space Telescope, visit webbtelescope.org.Sar James Webb Feature 18

Demons by J.M. Dillard: Should Star Trek fans read it for Halloween?

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - 2018/10/31: A participant seen dressed in Halloween costume during the parade.Hundreds of people participated in the 45th Annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York City. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

7 must-see Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes for Halloween

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 26: Nicolas Coster attends The Bay's Pre-Emmy Red Carpet Celebration at 33 Taps Hollywood on April 26, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Greg Doherty/Getty Images)

Nicolas Coster from Star Trek TNG “The Offspring” passed in June

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 08: (L-R) Jonathan Del Arco, George Takei, John Billingsley, LeVar Burton and Natalia Castellanos join the United We Trek picket line outside Paramount Studios on September 08, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Members of SAG-AFTRA and WGA (Writers Guild of America) have both walked out in their first joint strike against the studios since 1960. The strike has shut down a majority of Hollywood productions with writers in the fourth month of their strike against the Hollywood studios. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)

Star Trek Day strikes draw Takei, Burton, Billingsley, and more Trek talent

Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban on the set of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, directed by Nicholas Meyer. (Photo by Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Star Trek II book makes long-awaited debut in time for Star Trek Day

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 19: (L-R) LeVar Burton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes attend the IMAX "Picard" screening at AMC The Grove 14 on April 19, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Paramount+)

Star Trek: Picard season 3 Blu-ray boo-boo disappoints fans

Fanhome relaunches TNG Enterprise-D build-up model. Image courtesy Fanhome

Enterprise-D build-up model makes a triumphant return via Fanhome

Christina Chong as La’an in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streaming on Paramount+, 2023. Photo Credit: Best Possible Screengrab/Paramount+

3 TOS Star Trek musical episodes we wish we could see and hear

Martin Quinn as Scotty in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streaming on Paramount+, 2023. Photo Credit: Michael Gibson/Paramount+

Strange New Worlds season 2 finale “Hegemony” doesn’t quite stick the landing

Paul Wesley as Kirk, Carol Kane as Pelia, Melissa Navia as Ortegas, Babs Olusanmokun as MBenga, Christina Chong as Laan, Rebecca Romijn as Una, Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura, Anson Mount as Pike, Jess Bush as Chapel and Ethan Peck as Spock in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, streaming on Paramount+, 2023. Photo Cr: Kharen Hill/Paramount+

Subspace Rhapsody: The 3 best songs in Strange New Worlds musical

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 20: A general view of atmosphere at the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds booth during Comic-Con International 2023 on July 20, 2023 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Paramount+)

“Under the Cloak of War” continues Star Trek tradition of exploring war trauma

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 05: Celia Rose Gooding attends Outright International's 27th Celebration of Courage Awards And Gala at Pier Sixty on June 05, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Santiago Felipe/Getty Images)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ “Lost in Translation” weaves variations on “The Tholian Web”

Gia Sandhu as T'Pring, Ethan Peck as Spock, Ellora Patniak as T'Pril, Mia Kirshner as Amanda Grayson and Michael Benyaer as Sevet in episode 205 “Charades” of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, streaming on Paramount+, 2023. Photo Cr: Michael Gibson/Paramount+

Star Trek proves dinner aboard the Enterprise isn’t always a recipe for good times

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 14: The studio model of Starship “Enterprise” from Star Trek is on display at The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on its reopening on October 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. The museum reopened its west wing today with eight new galleries after a renovation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Pike’s Enterprise boasts a tech feature we’ve seen only once before

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 30: Christina Chong attends the New York premiere of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on April 30, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Hatnim Lee/WireImage)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow sets the Strange New Worlds bar high